Is Marvel President Kevin Feige The Greatest Producer That’s Ever Lived?

[Amadeus Arkham]

To Ben Affleck and Simon Kinberg he is:

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Do You agree with this statement or disagree? I mean given the unprecedented success of the MCU with its quality control and fairly consistent track record for fourteen years. Granted, the MCU isn’t exactly high brow stuff but regardless of how you feel about the quality of these movies to say simply say that pulling off a huge long running live action comic book cinematic universe that’s been running consecutively for this long isn’t impressive is delusional. It’s extraordinary what Feige has accomplished, and while the success can’t solely be accredited to him, he’s still the primary architect of this shared cinematic universe craze that others in Hollywood has tried and failed to replicate. So on that basis shouldn’t he be in the conversation for the greatest producer along with the greats like Frank Marshall?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

If you only consider box office output and even then I don't think I find that argument too compelling. He makes generally middle of the road films based on a hugely established IP where he can just pick and choose from literally thousands of comic plot points to take and most of the stories are just there for him to use.

Take Spielberg. He produced the Back to the Future trilogy, Men in Black, Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, The Land Before Time, The Gremlins series, Casper, The Mask of Zorro, Letters from Iwo Jima, Balto, Twister, Deep Impact. Those are some pretty big series that all don't rely on the same IP and have different genres and tones that he can put under his cap.

[godisawesome]

Feige’s maybe the best at adapting material into a multi-film franchise.

Lucas is the best at building a monster of a franchise across multiple media from the ground up.

[Jim Kelly]

"Producer" has to be one of those titles that is the most poorly defined and can be just about anything. Like "vice president" it can either mean having lots of power or none and you're either a big mucky-muck or a flunky.

The power that Feige has comes less from being a producer and more from just being someone who everyone else allows to have his way. Still in the Disney corporate structure, he's not the big boss--so his power is ephermal. As in the past with other executives, it could all go away if he ever lost favour with the big heads.

I find it odd that everyone is talking about Feige, with the success of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME--but what about Amy Pascal? That's more her win than his--simply based on financing--Sony gets a bigger piece of the pie. And she had a lot more on the line if her strategy had failed. She managed to save her own career and now it's unlikely Sony will ever give up the Marvel characters they own to Disney.

Why so little talk about her? Sexism? Personality?

[80sbaby]

"Producer" has to be one of those titles that is the most poorly defined and can be just about anything. Like "vice president" it can either mean having lots of power or none and you're either a big mucky-muck or a flunky.

The power that Feige has comes less from being a producer and more from just being someone who everyone else allows to have his way. Still in the Disney corporate structure, he's not the big boss--so his power is ephermal. As in the past with other executives, it could all go away if he ever lost favour with the big heads.

I find it odd that everyone is talking about Feige, with the success of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME--but what about Amy Pascal? That's more her win than his--simply based on financing--Sony gets a bigger piece of the pie. And she had a lot more on the line if her strategy had failed. She managed to save her own career and now it's unlikely Sony will ever give up the Marvel characters they own to Disney.

Why so little talk about her? Sexism? Personality?

Amy Pascal is on record as saying she went to Feige for his help with Spider-Man. NWH is pretty much all Marvel Studios, not Sony.

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"Producer" has to be one of those titles that is the most poorly defined and can be just about anything. Like "vice president" it can either mean having lots of power or none and you're either a big mucky-muck or a flunky.

The power that Feige has comes less from being a producer and more from just being someone who everyone else allows to have his way. Still in the Disney corporate structure, he's not the big boss--so his power is ephermal. As in the past with other executives, it could all go away if he ever lost favour with the big heads.

I find it odd that everyone is talking about Feige, with the success of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME--but what about Amy Pascal? That's more her win than his--simply based on financing--Sony gets a bigger piece of the pie. And she had a lot more on the line if her strategy had failed. She managed to save her own career and now it's unlikely Sony will ever give up the Marvel characters they own to Disney.

Why so little talk about her? Sexism? Personality?

She literally sent a message to Feige that read "HELP" with the Spider-man movies. Literally.

Marvel completely produced the new Spider-man movies for Sony. Under her watch, Sony had pretty much screwed up the franchise (i mean, the leaked emails speak for themselves). Not to mention that she seems to be a pretty nasty, racist person in real life.

Anyhow, the success of the Spider-man movies is actually all the MCU and very little of Sony. It's another feather in Feige's cap.

[Username taken]

What Feige and Marvel have done is very impressive.

Feige and co took a colossal risk to start the MCU in the first place (a LOT of people have forgotten that Marvel was an independent studio before Disney acquired them). They actually used the rights of the characters as security for the projects. That was an "all or nothing" gamble.

But the truth is, I don't really know what Feige's actual role is. Yes, he's a producer but he seems very "hands-on" with the production of most MCU movies and he seems to be more like a "creative director". Going by box office output and cultural impact, one could make the argument that he's one of "the" greatest guys to work in Hollywood but I don't know if I will say he is the actual greatest ever.

[phonogram12]

Feige’s maybe the best at adapting material into a multi-film franchise.

Exactly this. As a producer of superhero movies at least, he's certainly the most successful, without question.

[Kirby101]

What are the perimeters for "Greatest"?

[Astroman]

Nope. Val Lewton was though.